A protorhyssaline wasp in early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-57

  Ortega Blanco, Jaime ^a   Delclòs, Xavier ^a   Engel, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Albian; amber; Apocrita; Ichneumonoidea; paleontology; Spain; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMBER; CRETACEOUS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; TAXONOMY; WASP; WING MORPHOLOGY;

SPAIN;

APOCRITA; BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONOIDEA; PROTORHYSSALUS;

EID: 79955670637     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2317/JKES100728.1     Document Type: Article

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